On Dec. 30, 2025, the Danish postal service delivered its final letter, bringing an end to a tradition that had lasted for more than four centuries. The decision, announced earlier in the year by ...

This past week Greenland was big in the news. Of course, Greenland has always been big. Three times the size of Texas, the world's largest island dominates the arctic space between North America and ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that the US gave Greenland to Denmark after World War 2. The claim was made during the 79-year-old's speech at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos amid ...

WSJ’s Max Colchester explains what’s at stake amid escalating tension between the U.S. and Europe over Greenland as President Trump travels to Davos. Photo: Romina Amato/Reuters President Trump ...

In a text to the Norwegian prime minister, President Donald Trump said there were “no written documents” showing Denmark’s right of ownership over Greenland. There are several documents that affirm ...

President Trump’s efforts to pry Greenland from Denmark show that “the old world order is now gone,” Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned in Berlin. By Jim Tankersley Reporting from Berlin Prime ...

In 1917, the United States bought Caribbean islands from Denmark and agreed to respect Denmark’s hold over Greenland. The deal resurfaced with President Trump’s recent threats to seize Greenland.

In a Jan. 18 text message to the prime minister of Norway, Donald Trump asked why Denmark has a “right of ownership’” over Greenland? A week earlier, Trump’s adviser Stephen Miller had asked on CNN, ...

On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump reiterated his desire to acquire Greenland, stating he didn't plan to take the land by force. In his address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trump claimed ...

The day after President Trump announced a “framework” to acquire Greenland, the leader of that island said he’s not sure what the president meant. “I don’t know what’s in the deal,” Jens-Frederik ...

COPENHAGEN—Martin Tamm Andersen spent his 20s fighting the U.S.-led global war on terror in places other American allies refused to go. In Basra, Iraq, he sat ...

American soldiers would end up fighting Danish troops if President Donald Trump orders the U.S. military to seize Greenland by force, a Danish politician has said. "If there is an invasion by American ...